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The Great Caruso

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Dramatisation of the career of legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, from his days spent singing on street corners in order to survive, to his apprenticeship in an opera chorus in Naples and his sensational success in America.

Mario Lanza himself performed the operatic arias featured in the film. Show less

Contributors

Enrico Caruso:
Mario Lanza
Dorothy Benjamin:
Ann Blyth
Louise Heggar:
Dorothy Kirsten
Maria Selka:
Jarmila Novotna
Carlo Santi:
Richard Hageman
Park Benjamin:
Carl Benton Reid
Giulio Gatti-Casazza:
Eduard Franz
Alfredo Brazzi:
Ludwig Donath
Jean de Reszke:
Alan Napier
Antonio Scotti:
Pal Javor
Caruso, as a boy:
Peter Edward Price
Producer:
Joe Pasternak

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